All TOSS local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-252969 | SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230 | TOSS-04-020300 | SV-252969r1190845_rule | 2026-02-19 | 2 |
Description
Users' home directories/folders may contain information of a sensitive nature. Nonprivileged users should coordinate any sharing of information with a system administrator (SA) through shared resources.
ℹ️ Check
Verify TOSS 4 limits the ability of nonprivileged users to grant other users' direct access to the contents of their home directories/folders.
Verify the user permissions on all user home directories is set to "750" permissions with the following command:
$ find $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd) -maxdepth 0 -not -perm 750 -ls
If there is any output, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Change the mode of interactive user's home directories to "0750" using the following command:
Note: The example will be for the user "disauser".
$ sudo chmod 0750 /home/disauser